Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Free will, " she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

Live as many lives as you can.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Your true potential in life will always be greater than your positive imagination.

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.